{"id":2018,"date":"2008-04-24T10:47:18","date_gmt":"2008-04-24T10:43:27","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-04-24T10:43:27","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=2018","title":{"rendered":"Boulder school district agrees to stop searching student cellphones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back in October was this post about Boulder CO school officials searching student cellphones: <a href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/blog\/index.php?blog=1&amp;title=colorado_school_searching_students_cellp&amp;more=1&amp;c=1&amp;tb=1&amp;pb=1\">Colorado school searching students&#8217; cellphones for text messages<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aclu-co.org\/news\/pressrelease\/release_monarchcellphone_04_21_08.htm\">press release<\/a> this week, the ACLU of Colorado announced that the school district agreed to desist:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>LOUISVILLE, CO &#8211; A spokesperson for the ACLU of Colorado announced today that it welcomes a decision of the Boulder Valley School District (\u201cBVSD\u201d) to limit searches of students\u2019 cell phone text messages, an issue the ACLU raised in a letter made public in October, 2007. In that letter, the ACLU asserted that non-consensual searches of text messages violate a Colorado criminal statute designed to protect the privacy of telephone and electronic communications. <\/p>\n<p>New guidelines state that before searching text messages, BVSD administrators must not only satisfy the minimum federal constitutional standard for conducting a search, but must also obtain the consent of the student or parent. The only exception is an emergency in which there is an imminent threat to public safety. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI commend the Boulder Valley School District for making a decision that protects students\u2019 privacy and addresses the concerns raised in the ACLU\u2019s letter,\u201d said Mark Silverstein, ACLU Legal Director. \u201cMeetings with the school district\u2019s attorneys and ACLU representatives have been cordial and very productive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Colorado statute makes it a crime to read, copy, or record a telephone or electronic communication without the consent of the sender or receiver.  The ACLU\u2019s October letter asserted that administrators at Monarch High School in Louisville had been violating the statute by seizing students cell phones; reading the text messages; transcribing messages administrators regarded as incriminating; and placing some transcriptions in students\u2019 permanent files.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The school district denied violating the law but said that they wouldn&#8217;t do it anymore. <\/p>\n<p>News stories are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailycamera.com\/news\/2008\/apr\/21\/aclu-praises-boulder-valley-cell-phone-changes\/\">here (Daily Camera)<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rockymountainnews.com\/news\/2008\/apr\/21\/student-cell-phones-blocked\/\">here (Rocky Mtn. News)<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailycamera.com\/news\/2008\/apr\/21\/aclu-praises-boulder-valley-cell-phone-changes\/\">here (Denver Post)<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>(Thanks to Erik Maulbetsch, of the ACLU of Colorado for the information.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=2018\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"pingsdone","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2018\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}